You can read all about it at this link (and at the NY Times), but the short-story version is that an investigation has been launched into the events of last November, when U.S. Marines reported having been attacked by insurgents. The probe is not completed, but has thus far uncovered evidence and accounts from locals and other Marines in the area suggesting a very different story. According to these sources, the Marines involved were not provoked, and instead gunned down 5 men at a bus stop and women and children in 2 nearby houses. Reports estimate two dozen deaths.
These are not the acts of rational, sane, or otherwise stable people.
I know comparisons all have their limitations, but I recall my mother - at the beginning of this conflict - likening Iraq to Vietnam. Have we now seen the resurgence of the same mentality which led to My Lai?
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